Supporting-button for coffins



(No Model.)

s. E. BAUDER. SUPPORTING BUTTON FOR GOFFINS.

Patented Feb. 3, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Genres.

SILAS E. BAUDER, OF BIRMINGHAM, OHIO.

SUPPORTING-BUTTON FOR COFFINS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,715, dated February 3, 1885.

Application filed April 16, 1884.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SILAS E. BAUDER, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which formapart of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a top view of my improved outside box for coffins and caskets with the coverremoved; and Figs. 2 and 3 are respectively a perspective View of one of the wedge-shaped buttons in the bottom of the box and a sectional view of a portion of the bottom of the box, showing one of the recesses and its button.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to outside boxes for coffins and caskets; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of a box having recesses in its bottom. having inclined bottoms, and provided with circular Wedge-shaped buttons pivoted in the same, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates the bottom of the box, which has a number of circular recesses, G, preferably near the ends of the same, nponitsinner side, which recesses have inclined bottoms, and wedge-shaped buttons H, circular in form and of the same thickness as the depth of the recesses, are placed in the same and secured in them by means of screws I or nails, which pass through countersunk perforations J in the centers of the buttons into the centers of the recesses; and it will be seen that when the buttons are placed with their thick portions resting in the deepest portions of the recesses their upper faces will be tlush with the surface of the bottom of the box, Which-when the buttons are turned so as to have their thicker portions resting in the shallower portions of the recesses, the buttons having notches K in their upper faces for the purpose of obtaining hold for a tool to turn them, the thickest portions of the buttons will project above the bottom of the box and serve to raise the coffin or casket placed within it from the bottom, allowing straps or ropes to be passed under the said coffin or casket or to be with drawn from under the same.

Having thus described In invention. I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 7 p 1. In an outside box for coffins or caskets, the combination of the box having circular recesses in the inner side of its bottom, said recesses having inclined bottoms with circular wed ge-shaped buttons pivoted at their centers, to turn in the recesses, and havingtheir upper faces tlush with the surface of the bottom when the thick portions of the buttons are resting in the lowest portions of the recesses, as

and for the purpose shown and set forth.

2. In an outside box for cotiins and caskets, the combination of the box having circular recesses in the inner side of its bottom, the

said recesses having inclined bottoms, with circular wedge-shaped buttons having central countersunk perforations and pivoted upon nails or screws passing through the said perforations, the faces of the buttons having notches and being flush with the surface of the bottom when the thickest portions of the buttons rest in the lowest portions of the recesses,

as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto aflixed. my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SILAS E. BAUDER.

Witnesses:

B. S. WASHBURN, E. H. ANDRESS. 

